Reviews
Stalingrad
The Pritzker Military Library offers a smaller event alongside its On War symposium: a chance for a limited number of people to meet with the winner of the year’s lifetime achievement award to discuss one of his books. Last year I wasn’t bright enough to sign up. This year I didn’t hesitate. The chance to…
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A History of America in 36 Postage Stamps: A Review and a Giveaway
In A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps, Chris West took the concept of micro-history to a new degree of micro, using a chronological series of postage stamps as “tiny rectangular time machines”. In his newest work, West uses the microscopic lens of the postage stamp to examine American history. West cleverly opens A…
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On War, the Symposium– Year 2
Last week My Own True Love and I attended the Pritzker Military Library’s second annual On War Military History Symposium. Last year’s symposium blew me away. Perhaps I’m a little jaded since I’ve spent a lot of the last year reading, writing, and thinking about World Wars I and II, but this year wasn’t quite…
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